IOC

• As Olympics decision looms, IOC offers guidance for Russian athletes

  The recommendations on Russian and Belarusian athletes relate only to international competitions but not the 2024 Olympics, where a separate decision will be taken at a later date.

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  Mar 28
  
• Could Vancouver become a permanent Winter Olympics host city?

  Cities being floated as theoretical regular hosts include Salt Lake City and Vancouver in North America, Pyeongchang in Asia and places like Switzerland and Italy in Europe. 

  Sports

  Feb 14
  
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• Beijing Olympics: IOC must consider hosts’ human rights record, skier Kenworthy says

  Rights groups have long criticized the IOC's choice of Beijing as 2022 host, and several countries mounted diplomatic boycotts to protest China's human rights record.

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  Feb 19, 2022
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• Olympics chief criticizes Kamila Valieva’s entourage, offers sympathy to Russian skater

  Thomas Bach said it was "chilling" to watch the 15-year-old's coach interact with the skater after she stumbled in the free skate program amidst an ongoing doping case.

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  Feb 18, 2022
• IOC may take harder line against China after tennis star goes missing: member

  "If that's not resolved in a sensible way very soon it may spin out of control," said IOC's longest-serving member, Dick Pound. "It may (force IOC into taking a harder line)."

  World

  Nov 19, 2021
• Belarus officials removed from Tokyo Olympics after trying to send sprinter home

  The Belarus athletics head coach and a team official have been taken out of the athletes' village following the furore over sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya.

  World

  Aug 5, 2021
• IOC suspends probe into Raven Saunders’ podium protest as she mourns mother’s death

  The IOC also said it is still waiting for a formal explanation as to why two Chinese gold medallists wore badges featuring Mao Zedong on the podium at the Tokyo Olympics.

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  Aug 4, 2021
• Belarusian Olympian Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says punishment awaited her back home

  Several countries offered to help Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, and Poland granted her a humanitarian visa Monday. She plans to fly to Warsaw later in the week.

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  Aug 3, 2021
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• IOC probing case of Belarusian sprinter, awaiting report from country’s Olympic body

  Krystsina Tsimanouskaya took refuge in the Polish embassy in Tokyo on Monday, a day after refusing her team's orders to board a flight home from the Olympic Games.

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  Aug 2, 2021
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• South Korea removes controversial banners from Tokyo Olympic village

  South Korea’s Olympic committee said it took down the banners that referred to a 16th-century war between Korea and Japan after the IOC ruled they were provocative.

  Sports

  Jul 17, 2021